"Daniel O'Connell: The Champion of Liberty" poster published in Pennsylvania, 1847.
The
Repeal Association was an Irish mass membership political movement set up by
Daniel O'Connell in 1830 to campaign for a
repeal of the
Act of Union of 1800 between Great Britain and Ireland.
The Association's aim was to revert Ireland to the constitutional position briefly achieved by Henry Grattan and his patriots in the 1780s, but this time with a full Catholic involvement that was now possible following the Act of Emancipation in 1829, supported by the electorate approved under the Reform Act of 1832. On its failure by the late 1840s the Young Ireland movement developed.
Repealer candidates contested the United Kingdom general election, 1832 in Ireland. Between 1835 and 1841, they formed a pact with the Liberals. Repealer candidates, unaffiliated with the Liberal Party, contested the 1841 and 1847 general elections.
Contents
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Electoral statistics 1
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See also 2
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External links 3
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References 4
Electoral statistics
The seats figure in brackets is the position after election petitions and by-elections consequent upon election petitions, had been decided. There were 103 Irish MPs in the period (excluding the two members from Dublin University, as that non-territorial constituency is excluded from the table below).
Votes in 1835 and 1837 are included in the Liberal totals in Rallings and Thrasher's tables.
Sources: Walker and Rallings & Thrasher.
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Election
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Candidates
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Unopposed
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Votes
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% Irish votes
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MPs
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1832
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51
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14
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31,773
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34.6
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42 (39)
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1835
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43
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12
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...
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...
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34 (32)
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1837
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34
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15
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...
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...
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30 (31)
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1841
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22
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12
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12,537
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24.8
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20 (18)
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1847
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51
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18
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14,128
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43.6
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36 (35)
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See also
External links
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Loyal National Repeal Association
References
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British Electoral Facts 1832 - 1999, compiled and edited by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher (Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2000)
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Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)
Defunct political parties in Ireland
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To 1918
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Post 1918
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